topic here to follow Martin Chartier and his band of Shawnee Indians in the several locations which they settled before they reached this section, but to confine myself to this Washington Boro Indian Site only. I know of no deed nor warrant nor draught nor any other document on which the name nor the

inhabited by a band of the Piqual tribe of the Shawnee Indians, between 1698 and 1727. In order to unravel this matter we will follow the history and habits of these Shawnee Indians in a brief manner. According to the sacred tribal chronicle of the Delaware Indians, called the Walam Olum,2 the pictographic

. Habecker �INSCRIPTION ON THE TABLET MARTIN CHARTIER died 1718, noted Indian Trader and Interpreter in early Pennsylvania and Maryland, Frenchmen from Canada who resided at Fort St. Louis of the Sieur De La Salle in present Illinois, 1684-1690, a leader thence of the Shawnee Indians to Maryland, 1692, and

. To introduce the subject I may say that Chartier went out with La Salle to the Illinois region to Fort St. Louis built on what is now the Illinois River in Illinois. There was a large settlement of Shawnee Indians there and a group of them left the Fort in their customary wander- ings. Shortly after